EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Whirlpool Corp. plans to lay off about 100 employees at its Evansville plant because of a dwindling demand for refrigerators.

About 170 others were laid off earlier, leaving some 1,260 workers at the Evansville plant, said Jill Saletta, the Whirlpool director of external communications.

She said the layoffs are considered temporary, and the employees may be recalled when conditions improve.

That means the 100 workers being cut here are not part of the 5,000 permanent job reductions Whirlpool is making at other plants throughout the world. Those cuts were announced last month, but company officials declined to say whether they would affect the Evansville plant.

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